Delicious LiveJournal Links for 1-6-2010

[andrewducker]

• A Chess program in 1K
  Actually, in 672 bytes.
  (tags: programming history software games zx81 assembly chess)
• The Gentle Seduction - a short story
  The Singularity, as experienced by a non-geek.
  (tags: fiction scifi science singularity transhumanism nanotechnology)
• Stunning pictures of the world's newest tallest building's opening ceremony
  (tags: photography pretty architecture)
• Kodak wireless picture frames are trivially easy to read over the internet and update. For anyone. Oh dear.
  (tags: EpicFail technology kodak)
• The Things - a short story telling the story of The Thing from its point of view.
  (tags: sf short_story writing)
• Heroes is a hit as the most pirated TV show that is
  It (and Dexter) have more people pirating it than watching it live...
  (tags: tv piracy copyright)
• What's up with the Beep driver in Windows 7?
  (tags: windows audio history computers hardware)
• Obama makes first trans-gendered appointment
  (tags: transgender usa politics)

Comments

[channelpenguin.livejournal.com]

Ha - I think I recall that ZX81 program! There were a few bugs, IIRC, as the poster mentions.

And the 'slow' statement for the faulty-ROM-ed machines - classic! I'd forgotten about that little quirk of the early Zx81s.

I think I might have been a real programmer back then....

[supergee.livejournal.com]

"The Gentle Seduction" is one of my all-time favorite sf stories. Thanks for reminding me.

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

Meh serve them right. If ever there was a gadget that's just a piece of pointless carbon-burning headed for eventual tech landfill it's those wanky photoframes. BUY A REAL ONE. IF YOU HAVE SEVERAL PHOTOS GET A BIGGER ONE.

BTW your apostrophes are failing... is that the incoming data?

Beep()

[call-waiting.livejournal.com]

I must admit I'm confused as to what the ADA requirement is. It certainly sounds like he's saying that the requirement is that calling Beep() should cause something in the machine to emit a beeping sound. But that can't possibly be what the blog post is about, because if that were the issue, they'd have done that twenty years ago. Right?

[kurosau.livejournal.com]

I don't like the article about pirating Heroes, because as is the normal case with that sort of thing, it misrepresents the statistics involved. Are those all unique users, or total downloads of Heroes torrents? If so, then a fraction of those people are watching each episode. And is that live tracker data, showing how many people have connected and downloaded a program? Or are we seeing an aggregate of how many people have downloaded the torrent file? Bad data screams at me.